review (XS) for 7012072: CompileTheWorld causes incorrect class initialization
Christian Thalinger
christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Thu Feb 10 09:06:05 PST 2011
On Feb 9, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/7012072
>
> 7012072: CompileTheWorld causes incorrect class initialization
> Reviewed-by:
>
> A class in java.util.concurrent had a static initializer with a
> dependency on it's outer class that could result in the unsafe offsets
> being used before they'd actually been initialized if the inner class
> was initialized before the outer. This would result in a failure
> during a later heap verification because the header word of an oop was
> overwritten. The class is being fixed to be more robust under a
> separate bug id but I thought we should add an assert to complain more
> directly at the use. It won't catch all possible cases of this since
> it doesn't guard against unsafe uses in the compiler but running -Xint
> would show the problem. Tested with failing test.
Looks good. -- Christian
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